International Affairs

Should the UN govern global AI?

2024-02-26 10:14 AM by Eugen Boglaru

The emergence of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022, followed by several other generative artificial intelligence (AI) models, created unprecedented urgency for guardrails around AI. In the year since, a call for a pause on training these large-scale AI models and predictions that powerful AI could cause human extinction or a future without work sparked a rush of …

Russia Is Fighting for a Treaty That Could Soon Change the Internet Forever

2024-01-30 01:33 PM by Tyler Fields

A committee established through Russia’s initiative is finalizing the draft for what would be the first-ever legally binding United Nations treaty to crack down on cybercrime. But as the provisions of the potential landmark deal take shape in talks that began Monday in New York, Moscow wants the agreement to go even further. “Whether it …